6 h. ago What is the controversial Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 and why are people protesting it?

India’s parliament passed the controversial bill moved by Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments

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13 h. ago Study finds more people are obtaining abortions but fewer are traveling to other states for it

A new study has found that fewer people crossed state lines for abortions in 2024 than the previous year

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15 h. ago Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024

European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on recordThe home-wrecking storms and floods that swept Europe last year affected 413,000 people, a report has found, as fossil fuel pollution forced the continent to suffer through its hottest year on record.Dramatic scenes of cars piled up on inundated streets and bridges being ripped away by raging torrents were seen around the continent in 2024, with “high” floods on 30% of the European river network and 12% crossing the “severe” flood threshold, according to the European State of the Climate report. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago 'Scariest film of 2024' that gave people sleepless nights now streaming

Although some have warned film fans about watching it

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40 h. ago DOMINIC LAWSON: The REAL reason President Trump can't hope to match China's leader in the tariff wars and why he's far from being a master strategist

Who said of China's president Xi Jinping, 'He's a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist'? That was Donald Trump during the 2024 US election.

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63 h. ago Bondi Westfield attack victims ‘should still be here’, Anthony Albanese says in first anniversary tribute

PM also praises first responders’ courage and a community ‘united in grief’ one year after stabbing rampage that killed sixElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has paid tribute to the victims of the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings one year on from the tragedy.Forty-year-old Joel Cauchi killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahrir, 30, and injured a further 10 people at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024 before he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Mother ‘held in police cell for seven hours after confiscating daughters’ iPads’

Vanessa Brown said she had suffered sleepless nights as a result of the incident on March 26.

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4 d. ago More than 1,000 people died from heat in England in 2024, figures show

The higher-than-expected number of deaths came despite relatively cooler conditions last year.

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4 d. ago Visa applications for key routes to UK drop by almost 40% in a year

Some 1.24 million people applied for visas in the year to March 2024, before it dropped by 37% to 772,200 applicants in the year to March 2025.

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5 d. ago Mark Wright looks shattered just four weeks after Michelle Keegan gave birth

Mark Wright appeared down cast during a day out in Central London before heading to work and it appears that the reality star has hit the sleepless night phase of fatherhood

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5 d. ago Visa applications for key routes to UK drop by 37% in a year

Some 1.24 million people applied for visas in the year to March 2024, before it dropped by 37% to 772,200 applicants in the year to March 2025.

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6 d. ago A moment that changed me: I brought a baby gorilla home – and learned so much about being a parent

The seven months I spent hand-rearing Afia fast-tracked me through every stage of parenting: love, laughs and pride, followed by inevitable separation and lossIt was 2016, and I’d been a zookeeper for seven years. I lived with my partner and two stepchildren in a Victorian terrace house in Bristol. We’d met when her kids were four and eight, so I had not experienced the early baby stages, the sleepless nights, nappies and bottle-feeding.But that was about to change. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 2024 saw the highest number of executions in nine years with China the capital punishment 'world leader', report reveals

More than 1,500 people were put to death by governments across 15 countries in 2024, a damning new report by Amnesty International has revealed.

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8 d. ago Coronation Street's Debbie Webster star admits suffering 'sleepless nights' over dementia storyline

The actress, 57, has revealed that taking on the sensitive storyline hasn't come easy

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8 d. ago Netflix Adolescence team to give 'scariest film ever made' modern spin as TV drama

The producers behind Netflix's hit four-parter Adolescence have just announced their next project

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1 week ago Nutritionist explains how to time your last coffee of the day to get a good night's sleep

While coffee boasts an array of health benefits, caffeine can wreak havoc on your cortisol levels. Here are the best times to drink coffee, with a nutritionist revealing when you should have your last cup of the day to avoid sleepless nights

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1 week ago 'I'm terrified. I've had sleepless nights since the benefits cuts were announced'

The Cardiff People's Assembly held a protest outside the office of Jo Stevens MP, the Secretary of State for Wales, in Roath on Wednesday

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1 week ago Les Ferdinand reveals the biggest regret of his career as he opens up on how he's still 'haunted' by it

Ex-Newcastle and Spurs forward Les Ferdinand has revealed he's had 'many sleepless nights' since retiring. He opened up on The Mail's 'The Apple & The Tree' podcast.

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1 week ago Riddle of Jeffrey Esptein's grim final days and frantic behaviour before death

The disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had sleepless nights in the corner of his Manhattan prison cell and complained to prison guards he was being treated like a "bad guy"

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves swears this is not a return to austerity. And yet it does feel like one | Gaby Hinsleff

The ‘party of change’ says it’s bound by fiscal rules. What voters hear is that all governments are the same, and things will never get betterIt was change that won it. That was the single word to which Labour eventually boiled down all its complex ambitions; the six-letter slogan plastered triumphantly across its manifesto, because by the summer of 2024 change was pretty much the only thing the people of an exhausted country could all agree on. What kind of change exactly had by that point almost ceased to matter. Anything but this, millions of us told ourselves, as we scattered our votes in all directions.It was clear even at the time that there were tensions between that urgent, almost reckless hunger for change and the naturally careful, cautious instincts of a steady-as-you-go incoming prime minister and chancellor. But Labour papered over them with the impenetrable mantra that, actually, if you think about it, “stability is change”. Well, actually, it isn’t. That line was neve...

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